The University Daily
KANSAN
Wednesday, February 18, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 98 USPS 650-640
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The weather took a turn for the better in Lawrence yesterday, and Colin warm temperatures to play on the gymnast in South Park. Forbes and Forbes (left) and Shahrid Healdi took advantage of the sunny skies and Heldari are in the class for four-year-olds at the Hillary Dice Center.
Kansas legislators debate speed limit bills
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
Superlearning
Relax and Go
For Baroque
Superlearning is a holistic system based on research into the functions of the right mind and left mind. This theory states that if the left half of the brain (conducting logical, rational, analytical thinking) and the right half is responsible for such things as intuition, creativity, imagination) were to perform in harmony with the body then the mind would have increased performance.
A relaxed state and synchronized rhythm are the basic factors in superlearning. According to this theory, students beat lowered from 70 to 80 beats a minute to somewhere closer to 60 beats a minute—then it would be possible to whiz away at math or land on less well-and without stress.
To induce such a relaxed state and to keep the mind alert and able to concentrate requires music with a very specific rhythm, capable of stimulating the brain that eliminates the stress of intensive mental work. So far, studies have centered around slow movements (60 beats a minute) in 4/4 time signature, and Rhythmic breathing is also central to superlearning.
To learn more, check out Superlearning by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder with Nancy Ostrender (Dacelore Press and Confucian Press, 1978, 89.95)
Look at those glasses and picture her standing on a dock seeing through them; or perhaps imagine her standing on a dock gazing through her glasses out to sea. Whatever the association you must form, you should be in your mind. That way, the next time you encounter Ms. Dossex, her face will tell you her name.
the limit to 65, both dependent on Congress taking action first.
Hamm said he proposed his version of the bill
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Familiarity Breeds Good Grades
How you perform on an exam may depend on where you are tested. According to psychologist Steven Smith of Texas A&M University, students can recall material more easily if they are familiar with it; that was it originally learned or if they visualize that room before taking the exam.
Results indicated that students told to visualize the lunge or shown slides of it did as well, if not better, than those retested in the lunge, while students gave no particular instructions on how to stand. Their home did considerably worse.
was told to think about the lounge for three minutes, and the last group received similar instructions and was shown slides of the lounge as well.
After assembling five groups of 10 students each in a basement lounge, Smith read aloud a list of 90 one-room apartments and asked the students to remember as many as possible. The following day students returned for a recall exam. One group was retested in the lounge, while another was told to examine in unfamiliar fifth-floor surroundings. The first of the four upstairs groups received no special instructions, while another was told to examine for three minutes prior to the exam. A third group
Environmental cues seem to affect memory most strongly on essay exams, which require memorization and formation; the technique is virtually useless in multiple-choice or true-false exams, which require recognition. Testing, to get correct answers.
Although Smith's findings remain tentative, they suggest that environment serves to increase our ability to remember the environment, we will be able to learn what we have learned there.
Col. David Hornbaker, superintendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol, said that about 62 percent of Kansas drivers were complying with
Simonedes Says:
Get to
The Route of
The Problem
Next time opportunity presents you with the chance to speak without notes, take this hint from the ancient Greek poet Simonedes. While attending a banquet one afternoon with a large number of students, he called away during His absence a natural disaster occurred, crushing all the celebrants beneath rock and rubble. Their relatives were grieved when, after the return of the students, was impossible to tell who was who. Simonedes solved the identity crisply by remembering where each guest had sat around the banquet table. He was so impressed with his memory that he founded the art of visual memory; his specific technique is known as the method of loci (places).
Simoneeda's technique is a breeze to use. Just plot a route in your mind, and then arrange each idea in your speech along this route in your speech. Give it situation. Suppose, for example, your speech is to be on some aspect of modern communication. Picture yourself walking to school. You go to the store and a park. Outside the drustore stand a telephone booth, reminding you that the first point in your speech concerns high phone usage. You notice you notice (in your mind's eye) a newspaper blown against a tree, which brings up the news media's role in the increasing price of phone service. Finally you visualize a beach resort and hold up the tree. This calls to mind the conclusion—your belief (bee-lead—puns are often used in numerotics to describe something that something must be about the high telephone rates.
With this method, you can remember as many as 60 or 70 ideas—if you don't mind a littered landscape, that is.
INSIDER
New KUAC ticket proposal could triple student prices
By REBECCA CHANEY Staff Reporter
The KUAC board will meet at 3:30 p.m. in the Satellite Union to consider the recommendations. It also will consider proposals to move a KU-MU football game to Arrowhead Stadium and to sell beer in Memorial Stadium whether KU women's teams will join the NCAA.
Student ticket prices for football and basketball games could as much as triple next year if recommendations made by the KU board consented board ticket committees are approved today.
steve leben, KUAC student board member,
said that ticket pricing in past years had been settled at board meetings to keep student ticket prices as low as possible.
THE RECOMMENDATIONS of the ticket committee would allow the board to set policy regarding pricing and let the athletic department work out specific costs.
The committee also has proposed a policy for the board to adopt requiring students to pay half the public price for both football and basketball tickets.
Leben said the proposed pricing policy was unjustified and drastic. Based on this year's public prices, $19 student tickets would cost $31 for a seven-game football season and $15 student tickets would cost $38.50 for a 14-game basketball season.
He said that he had met with athletic officials and student board members and that a compromise could be worked out before the board met this afternoon.
BASED ON NEXT year's prices, which have not been set officially, student tickets could cost $36 for football and $42 for basketball, Leben said.
The ticket policy committee, headed by David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, will meet at 2:30 p.m. today, before the board meeting, to finalize its recommendations.
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Leben said that he met with Bob Marcum, athletic director, yesterday, and the two had
agreed to recommend to the committee at the 2:30 meeting that student football tickets be based on one-third the public cost rather than one-half.
"That would mean tickets would cost about $20. Label the store that's that's out of line for their prices are $22 two other stores whose prices are $2
If adopted, the policy could be put into effect gradually over the next few years, Leben said.
AMBLER SAID the recommendations would be broadly discussed at both meetings today before he returns to work.
"But phasing it in doesn't change the problem," he said. "It only lengthens the pain. Let's not accept something we don't think is fair or not going to take for effect two or three years."
He also said he believed some of the information used to back up the committee's recommendation was "unintentionally" misleading.
"When you talk about increases, students have to bear their fair share of the load," he said. "But a major reason that student income has declined is that we've paid off our debt that we agreed to finance (the east stadium addition of a 7,000-seat student section). Lo and behold, revenues did decrease, but they were supposed to."
Leben said the information did not include student contributions to women's athletics and distorted declining percentages of student contributions to the total athletic department budget.
He also said private contributions had increased to more than $1 million a year.
KU STUDENT FUNDING for athletics is comparable to other schools in the Big Eight League.
Significant increases in funding of women's athletics have to be made, he said. Also, KU's football and basketball recruiting budgets are second to lowest in the Big Eight, and the capital improvements budget is the lowest in the Big Eight.
DEBBEN said.
"The athletic department is in a difficult financial situation," he said. "It is not a desperate situation, but it is serious."
Staff Reporter
Rv KAREN SCHLUETER
Kansan spurs Senate debate
The Senate approved the Finance and Auditing Committee's recommendations for seven of 13 months.
The University Daily Kansan's $1 student activity fee increase request provoked a two-hour Student Senate debate before it was approved last night.
It also deferred a decision on the recommendation to remove the School of Architecture and Urban Design Student Council from the code until tomorrow's meeting. Six remaining recommendations will be considered Thursday and a vote is taken on the entire recommendations bill.
if the Senate approves the bill, it will ask
Acting Chancellor Del Shanklet to increase the
$11.10 activity fee to $14.52.
Terri Fry, Kansan business manager,
defended the fee increase before the Senate.
"We've done things in an effort to keep even with rising costs," Fry said, "but if we raise our rates to our advertisers any more, we'll no longer be competitive."
three student senators voiced opposition to the Kansan's request. The Kansan receives $73,250 and requests its total allocation be increased to $109,190. The Kansan now receives $1 from the activity fee.
Fry also answered questions from Steve McMurry, Transportation Board chairman, concerning the Kansan's cash carry-forward account.
"The Kansan is a half-a-million-dollar business," Fry said. "Our costs vary from month to month. Cash carry-forward is to maintain our costs."
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